1. The Treaty of Versailles
Signed June 28, 1918

2. Chateau at Commecourt (France)
How does seeing this image make YOU (as a Canadian of the 21st century) feel?
How would your reaction to the picture be different if you were a Frenchman/woman living in 1919?

3. Aftermath of the Battle at Somme, France (nearly 60 000 British soldiers died in 1 day)
How does seeing this image make YOU (as a Canadian of the 21st century) feel?
How would your reaction to the picture be different if you were a Englishman/woman living in 1919?

4. It’s Payback time!
If you were a Canadian/ English/French or American citizen in 1919, would you want some kind of payback?
Think about the various costs of the war: death, injuries, disease, money, destruction of countryside and land
What would you demand as compensation from the Germans?

5. The Great War left… More than 16 million dead! 21 million injured.
Left Europe in shambles.
“The Lost Generation”

6. Versailles? Signed June 28, 1918
27 Nations attended, but 3 were most important

7. The Big Four Lloyd George Britain George Clemanceau France
Woodrow Wilson USA
Vittorio Orlando Italy

8. The Big Four at Versailles

9. What did France Want? Revenge
Security (so that Germany could never invade again)
Reparations (for damage done by German invasion of Northern France)
George Clemenceau

10. What did Britain Want? English public = very anti-German Lloyd George:
Britain needs Germany to recover (for trade)
Scared of the “disease from the East”
Lloyd George

11. What did America Want?
Did not have the support of the American public.
Set up League of Nations
Fulfillment of Fourteen Points
Punish Germany but not to completely destroy her.
Woodrow Wilson

12. Student Simulation

13. Terms of the Treaty German de-militarization:
Army reduced to 100,000 men
No tanks
No air force
No submarines & battleships
Rhineland de-militarized
Allies occupy west bank of Rhine for 15 years

14. Territorial Changes
What has changed?

15. Territorial Losses Germany lost all overseas colonies
Alcase-Lorraine given to France
Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium, North Schleswig to Denmark, Posen to Poland

16. Germany forbidden to unite with Austria

17. Germany accepts ALL responsibility for starting the war!
“The War Guilt Clause”
Germany accepts ALL responsibility for starting the war!
Question: Given what you already know about WWI, was this fair?

18. Reparations
Germany had to pay all the damages caused by her armies during the war US$ 31.4 billion ($ 442 billion in 2011) !!!!!!

19. What does this cartoon say about how Germany reacted to the terms?
German Reaction
What does this cartoon say about how Germany reacted to the terms?

20. What do you predict all of this did to Germany?

21. Peace and Future Cannon Fodder
Political Cartoon of 1920 by Australian artist Will Dyson